Rickshaw Unschooling

As most people know, Tal is allergic to wheat and wheat-related grains (basically, he can eat rice, sorghum, corn, quinoa, and other starche...

Taliesin eats his carrots heartily, because, despite our efforts to explain to him that our families are all genetically predisposed to need...

New link added in the Learning Links section (lower left): The Story of Stuff Just watched it with the kids. The "what you can do"...

Here, we are busy preparing for Sinterklaas ' birthday party. Normally the festivities would happen tonight, but we've asked him to ...

Well, the earth walk concept is beginning to achieve its goals. The idea is that we walk 2 or 3 times every week through the same general ar...

Collection of photos -- there will be no extensive explanations, because although the main jobs for the month are done, we now have to catch...

Tali's teacher recently sent these comments out to Learning Centre parents. I like them so much that I asked him if I could post them he...

We're all fighting a pretty awful combination of viruses and infections, here (nearly 2 weeks of it, now!), as well as being intensely b...

To Shoot or Not to Shoot? I've also been criticized for having my camera out all the time. I have been taking it with me to document man...

Well it isn't a new moon, but it is just off the Samhain full moon, arrived bright and icy in the first real frost of the year. Winter i...

This is what remains of the thread previously discussing our concerns and solutions for the children's learning programs. Just to update...

Today we rushed to the 8:30 ferry, so we'd have time for a little grocery shopping between swimming and circus, made it on just before t...

Today while Rhiannon was at preschool, Taliesin and Mama headed up into the woods just west of the preschool to find mushrooms. It was a per...

Today we went visiting with our friends Leah and Jayden. We've not taken the time to just relax together in months, and it was really he...

Well because of a visit from our foe, Pink-Eye (recent offspring of the Pink Panther and GoldenEye), followed by, in Rhiannon's case, on...

I was raised on rabbits, and, although I never had to kill them, I saw my father do it. And all of us helped slaughter them. It wasn't a...

This week, as I reported on our family blog , was pretty much enveloped by Rhiannon's third birthday. We celebrated all last weekend, on...

Tali really came into his own this week, in many ways. At circus school he managed more than ever before and, though he didn't want me t...

Well as is appropriate for the week of the darkening moon, this week has been all about letting go. During these days of my own menses we ha...

This is what we did all day: while Rhiannon was at preschool Mama made posters and Taliesin made a journal entry about our nose campaign. Af...

Wild Food: Yarrow We picked some yarrow flowers and leaves by the roadside, today. Not, of course, the healthiest location for procuring the...